The conference administers the
Program
for Former Slave and Forced Laborers, a one-time payment for
persons "compelled to perform work in a concentration camp...a ghetto,
or a similar place of incarceration under comparable conditions."

The Conference had the responsibility of verifying the assertion
of an individual that he or she had been used as a forced laborer
during World War II. In order for these claims to be approved
or rejected, it was necessary to locate documentary proof of such
forced labor. In order to do this, the Conference employed
people in Israel and the United States to examine documents held in
various archives and to look for the names of the claimants.
A detailed description of the efforts used by the Conference can be found
here.

A database was prepared using materials held in Israel's
Central Zionist Archives and Yad Vashem. Those names in the
resulting database were then compared with the names of claimants.
Presence of a name on this database does not necessarily mean that an individual
was either a claimant through the Program for Former Slave and Forced Laborers
nor a survivor, but rather an individual whose name appeared in record(s)
held in the Central Zionist Archives or Yad Vashem in Israel.

While the information relating to each individual varies, in every case it includes family and
given name and "place of persecution", as well as a citation of the document from which the
name was taken. In some cases, birth information is given.

Acknowledgments

This database was compiled by the Conference on Jewish Material
Claims Against Germany in for use by the Slave Labor Program.
Data was derived from archival documents available at the Central
Zionist Archives, Yad Vashem, and the United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum. Permission was kindly granted to JewishGen
to make this datafile available online by Dr. Wesley A. Fisher,
Director of Research, Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against
Germany, Inc.
Michael Haley Goldman of the United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) provided the datafile
for JewishGen to prepare and Peter Landé discovered the
source lists and prepared the Introduction. Thanks to Adam Smith
for alerting us to these files and the source documents and to
Rochelle Rubinstein, Deputy Director - Archival matters, Central
Zionist Archives, for explaining the compilation of the files.

In addition, thanks to JewishGen Inc. for providing the website
and database expertise to make this database accessible.
Special thanks to Susan King, Warren Blatt and Michael Tobias for
their continued contributions to Jewish genealogy.
Particular thanks to Joyce Field and to Nolan Altman, Coordinator
of Holocaust Files.